Month: November 2021
It’s no secret: CIA book looks at fraught relations with Trump – NPR
It’s no secret: CIA book looks at fraught relations with Trump NPR Trump’s ‘fact-free’ approach caused briefing challenges, CIA report says The Guardian US intelligence community ‘struggled’ to brief Trump, CIA study says CNN Trump Never Got Another Classified Intelligence Briefing After Jan.
Read MoreSupply Chain Problems Have Small Retailers Gambling on Hoarding
Some independent stores ordered in bulk well in advance, and now are hoping they’re able to sell what they have.
Read MoreProsecutors ask U.S. Supreme Court to review the Bill Cosby case
The prosecutors who brought Cosby to a conviction in 2018 — and then saw him freed earlier this year — are asking the Supreme Court to throw out a state court’s ruling. (Image credit: Michael Abbott/Getty Images)
Read MoreReps. Boebert and Omar spoke after Boebert’s Islamophobic comments. It didn’t go well
The contentious phone call between Reps. Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar likely means the controversy will continue. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Read MoreIn Honduras Presidential Race, Leftist Candidate Has Big Lead
Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of a former leftist president deposed by the military 12 years ago, appeared headed for a comfortable victory in the presidential vote.
Read MoreU.S. Plans to Improve Bases to Deter China
A review of U.S. military forces and capabilities world-wide doesn’t contain large adjustments as the U.S. tries to take on Beijing, deter Russia and fight terrorism.
Read MorePentagon to Probe 2019 Syria Airstrike That Killed Women and Children
The inquiry will look at the number of civilians killed and whether the U.S. complied with the laws of war in launching the attack, which the military didn’t publicly acknowledge until this year.
Read MoreOmicron Drives Rise in Hospitalizations in South Africa Hot Spot
The variant’s emergence in South Africa has driven a sharp increase in hospitalizations in Gauteng province during the past two weeks, although fewer patients than in previous surges are being treated for severe disease.
Read MoreOmicron Variant Prompts Governments to Push Covid-19 Boosters
Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the U.K., all early adopters of the Covid-19 vaccine, are urging their residents to get a booster shot as governments globally consider options to help fend off the coronavirus’s new variant.
Read MoreOmicron variant a ’cause for concern, not for panic’, Biden says
The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 is a “cause for concern and not for panic”, Joe Biden has said.
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